Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

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G-d Guides Moshe

G-d rebukes Moshe for doubting Him in questioning why G-d sent Moshe to try to get the Israelites out when it seemingly made their plight worse (see yesterday's post). He tells Moshe that he is "Hashem"(i.e the Ineffable Tetragrammaton), i.e the name which indicates that G-d is faithful to his word.

G-d elaborates and says that by contrast, He had appeared to the forefathers Avraham, Itzchak and Yaakov as the name "K-El Shakkai" and not Hashem since while He had make promises to them, He had not yet fulfilled them.

The covenant/promise that G-d made with the forefathers (that had not yet been fulfilled) was that the land of Canaan should be theirs.

G-d reassures Moshe that in seeing the suffering of the Israelites, He has not forgotten his covenant and intends to fulfill it. He tells Moshe that this is what Moshe should tell the Israelites to reassure them, that G-d had made a covenant with His people and that He intends to fulfill it and rescue them from Egypt and the Israelites will worship G-d as their redeemer.

Hashem mourns the death of the patriarchs, reminiscing how though there were occasions when they could have questioned G-d (such as when Avraham could only purchase the plot of land for Sarah's burial at an exorbatant price, or when people raised claim over the wells that Itzchak dug in the land of Canaan, or when Yaakov as well had to purchase the land which G-d had promised him), they did not.

So Moshe relayed all of this to the Israelites, yet they were not consoled as they felt despondent about their situation.

G-d tells Moshe to tell Pharaoh to release the Israelites from his land.

Moshe protests, saying, "If the Israelites didn't listen to me, how will Pharaoh?" (I.e all the more so he won't - this is one of 10 Kal vachomers in scripture). Moshe says that his lips are "blocked".

So G-d sets up Aaron to be his mouthpiece, on account of Moshes's "blocked" lips. He tells them to be patient and speak calmly to the Israelites, and to speak with honor to Pharaoh.

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